South-West Block on South Side of Abbey Gate, St Albans School is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. A C20 School.
South-West Block on South Side of Abbey Gate, St Albans School
- WRENN ID
- stony-remnant-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- School
- Address
- South-West Block on South Side of Abbey Gate, St Albans School, Romeland
- OS grid reference
- TL 143 071
- Coordinates
- 51.75108, -0.34505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The South-West Block on the south side of Abbey Gate at St Albans School is an early 20th-century building that stands three storeys tall. It is constructed of flint with brick quoins and features stone dressings around irregularly placed windows. The roof has a varied line with gables and a mansard design, including dormers, all covered in slate and pitched moderately high. The windows consist of one-, two-, and three-light casements, many of which are topped with stone hoodmoulds, and some have traceried, stone-blocked centre lights. To the right, there is a wide, canted bay with a battlemented parapet that mirrors a similar parapet on one section of the roof. The entrance is located under a four-centred arch adorned with coats of arms in the spandrels. The Abbey Gate and the buildings of St Albans School are part of a cohesive group.
Local climate
South-West Block on South Side of Abbey Gate, St Albans School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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